![]() Still Jealous is a re-imagining of its 2004 namesake, stripped down to minimal instrumentation. It’s emotionally indulgent heartbreak music, whether your heart is breaking or not (the album may or may not convince you that it is). Their first album to experiment with different styles, the melodrama of So Jealous is hard to resist. But So Jealous is about so much more than its catchy hooks. It was the album that launched them into the spotlight, which is often credited to two events: the White Stripes cover of “Walking With A Ghost” and the premiere of Grey’s Anatomy, the mid-aughts surprise indie tastemaker. ![]() Two years prior to my discovery of internet friends and unbeknownst to me, Tegan and Sara released their fourth studio album, So Jealous. ![]() When I came out to someone in my family for the first time, my internet friends listened in, muted on video chat. We shared songs and videos, played guitar, and gushed about the exquisite pain of first Straight Girl Crushes. I landed on a Tegan and Sara fan forum, where I suddenly found myself up all night talking to new friends who were mostly also coming out. But I knew one thing: I loved the internet, and I loved Tegan and Sara. I didn’t know a lot of queer people or even understand the possibility of a queer community. I was starting to come out as some iteration of a lesbian. I met my first online friends in 2006 when I was 16.
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